Content Library
Books, courses, articles, and conversations — resources for missional church, church planting, and neighboring. Everything here exists to help you be faithfully present in your context.
5 Reasons to Be a Covocational Pastor
A covocational church planter—whose primary vocation is in the marketplace while planting a church—gains distinct advantages in community connection, financial sustainability, and prophetic freedom that traditional full-time models often lack.
7 Advantages of Non-Profit Planting
1. Better focus on restorative mission 2. Ecclesial innovation 3. More effective metrics 4. Greater respectability 5. Richer discipleship 6. Financial...
What Is Missional Living?
An introduction to the concept of living as a missionary in your own neighbourhood and everyday context.
The Sent Church: Recovering Our Identity
The church is not primarily an institution that sends — it is a people who are sent.
Neighbourhood as Parish: Rediscovering Place
In a hyper-mobile culture, choosing to stay rooted in a place is a radical act of faithfulness.
Everyday Discipleship: Beyond the Classroom
Discipleship is not a curriculum — it is a way of life shared between people on mission together.
The Problem: Church Planting & Multiplication
Planting is not a program but a posture — a willingness to go where the gospel needs embodied witness. Explore multiplication strategies, co-vocational models, and the theology behind starting new churches.
The Definition: Neighboring & Place
The heart of a missionary is not to go somewhere else, but to be someone different right where you are. Discover theology of place, neighboring practices, and what it means to be faithfully present.
The Misconceptions: Neighboring & Place
The heart of a missionary is not to go somewhere else, but to be someone different right where you are. Discover theology of place, neighboring practices, and what it means to be faithfully present.
The Misconceptions: Church Planting & Multiplication
Planting is not a program but a posture — a willingness to go where the gospel needs embodied witness. Explore multiplication strategies, co-vocational models, and the theology behind starting new churches.
The Need to Unlearn and Relearn
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ~ Alvin Toffler If I could su
Covocational Church Planting Teams
Covocational Church TeAnyone involved with church planting knows it is best to plant with a team. However, if you are a covocational church planter, you have absolutely no other option.
Rethinking Culture
The myth of a Christian culture continues to set the mind of the Western church at ease. This myth assumes that the West is, or once was, a Christian culture. If the culture is Chri
Covocational Church Planting: Aligning Your Marketplace Calling & the Mission of God
Aligning Your Marketplace Calling & the Mission of God
Neighbourhood Theology
An 8-week exploration of place, presence, and parish — learning to see your neighbourhood as the primary context for faithful mission.
Next Wave Community
Podcast by Steve Pike
Shifting Culture
Podcast by Joshua Johnson
The Dare to Multiply Podcast
Podcast by Cynthia Anderson
The Starfish and the Church
Podcast by Starfish Initiatives
Think Global, Do Justice
Podcast by Canopy International
The Venture 12 Podcast
Podcast by Venture 12
The Church Digital Podcast
Podcast by Jeff Reed
The Fresh Expressions Podcast
Podcast by Fresh Expressions US
Covocational Church Planting
The Posture of a Missionary
The Missional Quest Overview
Rethinking Church: From Attractional to Incarnational
Neighborhoods and the Mission of God
Engage Your City Overview
What is Missional?
Parish Model Ministry
Next Door as It Is in Heaven Overview
Covocational Ministry Panel
The Future of Church Planting
Missional Community Formation
Why Every Christian is a Missionary
Practicing the Way of Jesus in Your Neighborhood
Missional Essentials Session 4: Community
Missional Essentials Session 5: Discipleship
Missional Essentials Session 6: Multiplication
Engage God's Mission Where You Live, Work and Play
CGGC Triennial ReThink Keynotes (6 talks)
Missional Essentials Session 1: God's Mission
Missional Essentials Session 2: Missional Theology
Missional Essentials Session 3: Incarnational Living
CGGC Triennial ReThink Keynote 1
CGGC Triennial ReThink Keynote 2